KING HENRY THE FIFTH. DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, } DUKE OF BEDFORD, brothers to the King. DUKE OF EXETER, uncle to the King. The EARL OF SALISBURY. The EARL OF WESTMORELAND. The EARL OF WARWICK. The ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. The BISHOP OF ELY. The EARL OF CAMBRIDGE, LORD SCROOP, and Sir THOMAS GREY, Conspirators against the King. Sir THOMAS ERPINGHAM; GOWER; FLUELLEN, a Welshman; MACMORRIS, an Irishman; and JAMY, a Scotchman:-Officers in King Henry's Army. BATES, COURT, and WILLIAMS, Soldiers in King Henry's Army. PISTOL, NYM, BARDOLPH, a Herald, and Boy. CHARLES THE SIXTH, King of France. LEWIS, the Dauphin. The DUKE OF BURGUNDY, the DUKE OF ORLEANS, and the DUKE OF BOURBON. The CONSTABLE OF FRANCE. RAMBURES and GRANDPRÉ, French Lords. Governor of Harfleur. MONTJOY, a French Herald. Ambassadors to the King of England. ISABEL, Queen of France. KATHARINE, daughter to Charles and Isabel, Lords, Ladies, Officers, English and French Soldiers, CHORUS. SCENE,-At first in ENGLAND; afterwards in FRANCE. KING HENRY THE FIFTH. CHORUS. FOR a muse of fire, that would ascend ing scene ! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars; and, at his heels, Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire, Crouch for employment. But, pardon, gentles all, Are now confined two mighty monarchies, Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them kings, Carry them here and there; jumping o'er times; 1 Admit me Chorus to this history; ACT I. SCENE I.- London. An Ante-chamber in the King's Palace. Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY and BISHOP OF ELY. Canterbury. Y lord, I'll tell you, that self bill is urged, king's reign, Was like, and had indeed against us pass'd, But that the scambling and unquiet time Ely. But how, my lord, shall we resist it now? Cant. It must be thought on. If it pass against us, We lose the better half of our possession : A thousand pounds by the year: thus runs the bill. Ely. This would drink deep. Cant. 'Twould drink the cup and all. Ely. But what prevention ? Cant. The king is full of grace and fair regard. Ely. And a true lover of the holy church. Cant. The courses of his youth promised it not. The breath no sooner left his father's body, To envelope and contain celestial spirits. With such a heady currance, scouring faults; So soon did lose his seat, and all at once, As in this king. Ely. We are blessed in the change. Cant. Hear him but reason in divinity, And, all-admiring, with an inward wish You would desire the king were made a prelate: Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs, You would say, —it hath been all-in-all his study: List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music: Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter; that, when he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, is still, And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears, To steal his sweet and honey'd sentences; So that the art and practic part of life Must be the mistress to this theoric : Which is a wonder, how his grace should glean it, Since his addiction was to courses vain : Ely. The strawberry grows underneath the nettle; And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Cant. It must be so; for miracles are ceased; And therefore we must needs admit the means How things are perfected. Ely. But, my good lord, How now for mitigation of this bill |